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From: Andreas Kretschmer <andreas_kretschmer@despammed.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [despammed] Netfilter as an application.
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:55:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116165548.GA5166@kaufbach.delug.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040116163906.40844.qmail@web40307.mail.yahoo.com>

am  Fri, dem 16.01.2004, um  8:39:06 -0800 mailte kernel_learner folgendes:
>  How's it going! I am looking for something that I am
> not sure currently exists. Basically I want to make a
> version of netfilter that's free from all the
> kernel-level and networking stack hooks. I am looking
> for a plain simpler version of netfilter which does
> not interact with the kernel or the networking stack
> in any way. It would be a standard user program which
> a person with normal privelges could compile and run.

Very bad. Every can modify the rules. I think, you search 'Zonealarm for
Linux'.



> What would it do? It could do the same things that
> netfilter does...i.e. filter packets/NAT etc. However

Why?


> Does such a thing exist?

I hope: no.


> 
> How easy/difficult would it be to hack into the
> current netfilter code to remove all the
> networking/kernel hooks it has?

This is not the intention of netfilter.


Andreas
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-16 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-16 16:39 Netfilter as an application kernel_learner
2004-01-16 16:55 ` Andreas Kretschmer [this message]
2004-01-17 20:31   ` [despammed] " Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2004-01-18 20:55     ` AW: " misiu_
2004-01-19 23:51       ` Ted Kaczmarek
2004-01-22 16:33       ` kernel_learner

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